Bounty Hunter - Teen Titans (No. 5)

Intro

3rd POV:

In a column of light, a red microchip rotates slowly. A towering figure stands up, all clad in black armour, with additional steel plating reinforced vital areas, wearing a mask that hides their entire face. The mask itself is all black with an orange circle in the centre, revealing a steal gloved hand cocking one eyebrow in surprise. Robin looks at the thief as he hangs upside down from the ceiling then shouts out to him. "Tell Slade if he wants this, he can come get it himself!" He drops from his perch, landing on the floor and delivers a kick that sends the thief tumbling across the darkened area. All the lights come on, all the Titans are there in the chamber stuffed with supercomputers. A laser beam lances down from above, forcing Robin to jump out of its way, as a section of the ceiling is being cut away from above. The piece falls to the floor, and a cloud of dust rises into the air, and several more intruders leap in.

Robin backflips to stay out of the way of the next laser blast and one of the new arrivals comes right for him. He blocks their hit and dodges several blows, then a counter-kick but deflects it. The masked figure whips out a blaster, and open fires. Robin uses a few acrobatic tricks keeping him out of danger; he jumps into a roundhouse kick that sends the attacker crashing into the far wall.

Starfire flies around above quickly to evade the shots from one of the thieves jumping up after her. She gathers herself, her hands glow, she fires a starbolt right at the attacker gets sent skidding across the floor. Another one jumps even higher, up to the level of the large ceiling-mounted spotlights that illuminate the place and fire at her. The lens of the light is struck and begins to fall loose, Starfire is directly underneath as it is about to fall and crush her, but Robin leaps across and ploughs her away just in time. The lens crashes to the ground.

Dust is thrown up from the impact begins to clear, Robin sets Starfire down on the floor. She seems in a bit of a daze but soon snaps out of it with a gasp. "Huh?" Robin asks looking at her, as across the room, several more level their weapons but before they can shoot, a computer cabinet slides across bulldozing them. A loud crash sounds from somewhere; as Cyborg wipes his hands in victory.

"Amazing what you can do with computers these days." Cyborg jokes, he runs into the heart of the battle as Raven floats backwards, staying just ahead of a laser beam. Another one fires from midair, she creates a shield around herself for protection, and both disintegrate when they make contact. The enemy runs towards her and starts throwing punches her way, which she stops as she forms a small barrier in front of her as she slowly backs up. A low kick cuts her legs out from under her, the blaster aims at point-blank range, but before it can fire. Beast Boy as a bighorn sheep-rams its wielder into the wall. Raven, stands and stares in genuine surprise, then to Beast Boy in his human form. The knockout commando lies crumples in a heap.

"You owe me big time, you owe me big-" Beast Boy taunts, but another one drone jumps down behind him, running up and gets ready to attack him. Beat Boy turns around to look, but it's too late to save himself, just as two computers under Raven's control crush the drone between them. Beast Boy yells in fright throwing his arms up to protect himself; the hardware from the computer falls away, and so does the smashed drone. Raven winds down her powers and gives Beast Boy a hard stare, and he looks at her with sweat dripping down his forehead. "Call it even?" He chuckles nervously, his cheeks giving off a red tint.

In the meantime, Cyborg reaches the centre of the room. He breaks out his sonic cannon, and starts firing away and soon has assistance in the form of Starfire. One of the drones leaps high to avoid one of the blasts, then pushes off from the wall, sailing straight towards the levitating chip. The drone grabs the chip, it makes a run for the door, but Robin takes chase, he hurls one of his birdarang at it, but something drops down at the last second, catching the birdarang in their hand but knocks the drone to the floor making the chip fly away out of reach. Raven and Beast Boy look to the fallen chip, but Robin was staring at the figure in front of him. "Mine!" Beast Boy shouts running off after it.